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Few things:
1. I'm completely with you, it's so frustrating watching this team lose games we should be winning. We could fix that with a trade, and one must be made sometime soon.
2. Problem is, none of our guys have any trade value. Zucker and Nino in particular haven't done jack this year, and with a good amount of cap on their contracts it's pretty hard to move them. Coyle I actually have grown to like over the past month. Wild fans have always thought he could be a 30 goal guy but that's just not who he is. If you accept him as a middle 6'er who is a complimentary piece, he's a pretty good player. I think trading Brodin is a bad idea, even if we got another LD. He's still young, he's defensively sound, and while he won't deliver crushing hits or put up big offensive numbers, we don't really need him to. We have no depth in our prospect pool to be his eventual replacement (side note: I was really hoping we could snag K'Andre Miller at the draft if we went for a defenseman). Eriksson Ek had a lot of promise when he was drafted but he's looking more and more like a bust (another side note: maybe we can flip him to Philly for Patrick since both of these guys have been disappointing and Fletcher is the one who drafted Ek).
3. I think we need to accept this season as a loss and sell at the deadline. Eichel is out with an injury, maybe Sabres would want Staal so they don't completely tank in the standings and he'd provide good depth as a 2C when Eichel is back if his injury isn't season-ending. I'd hate to lose Spurgeon, but I'd love to see him lift the cup even if it weren't on the Wild. Spurge could get a nice return at the deadline (probably more than McDonagh did).
4. Do whatever we can to trade up into the top 10 and snag a center at the draft. Staal and Koivu are really showing their age and we must get a replacement ASAP. I would kill to see Dach or Cozens in a Wild sweater and there's other guys like Turcotte, Lavoie, or Newhook that look decent as well.
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